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> Something being popular doesn't indicate a monopoly Being on the standards board for "what browsers need to do", having the standards board under your thumb,
by amiga386 3y ago
> Something being popular doesn't indicate a monopoly
Being on the standards board for "what browsers need to do", having the standards board under your thumb, and continually adding in requirements that only the highest spenders can afford to implement securely, that does indicate a monopoly.
Embrace (web standards), extend (with a billion features), extinguish (rival browser engines)
- Gud 3y agoPlus aggressively marketing their web browser on the most popular search engine.
- fauigerzigerk 3y agoApple can afford to implement anything they want. But they clearly have a very strong business interest in not letting web apps gain all the features that native apps may have. Also, there is no legal requirement to implement every single API that the standards body specifies. The point of having standards is to make sure that _if_ a browser maker decides to provide some functionality, then they can implement the standardised API rather than inventing their own. This is a good thing in spite of the fact that it doesn't solve other problems related to market dominance.